Generating an ELF file with PT_NOTE before PT_LOAD

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 21 2018, Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com> wrote:

> --8<--
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> dd if=/dev/zero of=binary bs=1M count=1
> objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 binary text.o
>
> gcc -c -m32 -x assembler - -o note.o <<EOF
>     .section ".note.my-version", ""

I think you need to make that section allocated, otherwise the linker
will always place it after the other allocated sections.

Andreas.

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